Gather your thoughts in Varberg. Varberg is known to many as a summer town, with sun, baths, market trade and a vibrant entertainment scene. During the rest of the year, the pace is slower and perhaps better suited for the ones who want to reflect. Gastis, with its hundred-year-old history, is today a small, family run hotel with about fifty rooms, several conference rooms and a dining room with a view of Engelska parken ('the English park'). Everything is carefully renovated to preserve the classic hotel environment. We concentrate on small, quality conferences where new ideas and thoughts are shaped, both by the working-table and in front of the tiled stove in the library. Dinner is served in our beautiful dining room. It is possible to choose a budget alternative, which is our ordinary evening buffet that always is offered to all guests at the hotel. Alternatively, we can prepare a three or five course menu specially put together for your group. To complement these menus, we offer our carefully selected wines. We also arrange professional beer, wine and whiskey tasting on request. Except for conference work and dinner, we help you arrange a wide range of interesting activities special for Varberg and its surroundings. You may, for example, try a guided historical walk through town or an exclusive showing of the fortress's catacombs and the museum's unique collections of art and history. Furthermore, bathing is actually going on all-year-round. A healthy bath in the old baths or to have a winter dip with sauna to match in the open-air swimming-baths' amazing premises from the turn of the century could be a memory for life. From the autumn of 2006, the hotel will provide own, newly built baths with treatments and plenty of space for relaxation. Welcome to Varberg! Conference rates spring 2008. Alternative 1: Conference at Gastis with three course dinner The price also includes, except for accommodation morning snack (breakfast buffet or home made cake) three course dinner incl. two glasses of wine and coffee breakfast buffet in the morning conferenceroom with fruit, water and sweets. Monday - Thursday: 1800 SEK per person in single room 1450 SEK per person in double room Friday - Sunday: 1550 SEK per person in single room 1300 SEK per person in double room. Alternative 2: Conference at Gastis with five course dinner The price also includes, except for accommodation five course dinner incl. specially put together wine menu (4 glasses) and coffee. Monday - Thursday: 2200 SEK per person in single room 1850 SEK per person in double room Friday - Sunday: 1950 SEK per person in single room 1700 SEK per person in double room. Alternative 3: Budget alternative with conference at Gastis and the ordinary dinner buffet in the evening The price also includes, except for accommodation dinner buffet at Gastis with appetizer and two main buffet courses and our cold buffet including a glass of wine or beer (common buffet courses for all of the hotel's guests, dessert can be ordered for 50 SEK extra per person). Monday - Thursday: 1500 SEK per person in single room 1150 SEK per person in double room. Friday - Sunday: 1250 SEK per person in single room 1000 SEK per person in double room late morning coffee, choice of breakfast buffet or home-baked cookie conference room with fruit, water and sweets. All days 375 SEK per person late morning coffee, choice of breakfast buffet or home-baked cookie, or afternoon coffee. All days 300 SEK per person. 1200 SEK per full day,750 SEK per half day. Room for group activities: 500 SEK per full day (no half days). Smaller conference room: 750 SEK per full day (no half days). Extra dinner buffet: Extra dinner buffet, including starter and 1 glass of wine or beer: Three-course dinner including two glasses of wine and coffee: Five-course dinner including four glasses of wine and coffee: All of our rates include VAT.

The text below is a translation of an article published in Dagens Industri 19 August 2002: We will gladly return here. After ten minutes at Hotell Gastis in Varberg, we have decided - we want to be regulars here! Exciting decoration, homely atmosphere and an unusually attentive service makes the critical DI test patrol melt. The strongly pink Gastis building, right across from the English park, is one of Varberg's best known buildings. Here, the scientist and explorer Otto Torell (1828-1900) was born, and it was also he who have the hotel its name. Present-day Gastis is relatively newly renovated and the owners have most deliberately tried to recreate former times' room for travellers atmosphere. It succeeds to well that the guest immediately feels as if moved into a Ture Sventon novel. Air of excitement An air of excitement and romance rests over the winding corridors and each room is unique both in terms of shape, size and decoration. The walls are decorated with reproductions of everything from Paul Gauguin to Edvard Munck, and new and old is keenly mixed. Across the street, an annexe with about ten extra rooms is built. Whoever seeks the genuine Gastis atmosphere ought, however, to keep to the main building. DI's white painted and fairly cramped double room has a slanting ceiling - even in the bathroom. There is wooden floow, a built-in closet and two separate beds with dark-blue bedspreads. The windows have merry tulip curtains and wooden blinds and are best closed nighttime. Varberg is a typical summer town with all what that entails in terms of commotion caused by people and music, and Gastis is centrally located. During DI's visit, a merry jazz orchestra played in the next block until far into night. Valutnyttjade utrymmen The slanting ceiling of the room has been taken care of well, with an old desk with brass fittings under the beams. There is a telephone and a few extra electric sockets by the floor. A local phone book is in the desk drawer. The bathroom has tiles in beige and apricot, bathtub, towel heather and mirror. Also here, the slanting ceiling has been used in the best way, an otherwise unusable space now works as a spacious surface for putting things. Gastis has even managed to put in cane chair in a corner. Extravaganses such as shampoo, body lotion and Kleenex tissues are, however, missing. In the room's combined TV and video shelf there is an empty fridge. Soda, beer, wine and spirits can be bought in the reception, whose back functions as a bar. In the reception, there is also Gastis's greatest asset, the staff. Constantly on their guard, fast, efficient and attentive to the smallest needs of the guests. Which mostly is provided freely: Everything should not cost, the hotel management exemplary think, and consequently there are among 600 videos to borrow, free laundry service, a large library and smoking room and a great number of daily newspapers and magazines, free afternoon coffee and and evening buffet as well as tennis raquets, bathrobes, track suits and umbrellas to borrow. The reception also supplies everything from Alvedon and hygienic items to stamps at suddenly discovered needs. Trevlig relaxavdelning One flight of steps down is a nice relax section with jacuzzi and sauna, and a flight of steps up a little roof terrace for the evening drink. Amusing details are the wine tasting booth and cigar section in the dining room, where the plentiful breakfast buffet also is served. When you come to Gastis, you can relax, the hotel advertisment brochure assures. We will be happy to sign for that. (DI). 21 POINTS of maximum 25 possible Comfort: 4p Atmosphere: 4p Service: 5p Value: 5p Work tools: 3p

You will find us in the town centre. In the centre of Varberg, there are numerous parking possibilities, of which most still are completely free of charge. To ensure our guests of parking spaces, Gastis also offers a number of own parking possibilities. For our visitors, the alternatives are as follows (see map above): 1. Gastis's yard parking (locked nighttime) with 6 parking spaces, where you as a guest pay 50 kronor a night. The spaces are not bookable, i.e. they are on a first come, first serve basis. In our yard, there are also 4 garages, which can be prebooked and cost 100 kronor a night. 2. Gastis's free parking by the rail road (100 m from the hotel). A parking permit is required here. This will be acquired in the hotel reception. The spaces (no 16-25) are marked Hotell Gastis. 3. SJ riksparkering by the rail road (spaces 1-15 next to Gastis's free parking). Spaces are 20 kronor a night and tickets are bought at the taxi station by the parking lot. 4. Parking garage Briggen (approx. 300 spaces) on the other side of the rail road. Free parking at all hours. 5. Free 4 hour parking on the other side of the rail road. Parking disc ('P-skiva') required (available at the hotel reception). 6. Free 24 hour parking by the harbour as well as outside Hotell Fregatten. Additionally, it is free to park along most streets of Varberg. Between 9 am and 6 pm a parking disc ('P-skiva') is required (available at the hotel reception) for 1 hour at the time. All other hours, parking is available freely. Read the signs carefully to make sure! Please observe that the three parking spaces on the street outside the Gastis entrance are are on and offloading zones during daytime. You can therefore not park there between 9 am and 6 pm!

Gastis Baths with the Lenin Baths. Welcome on a tour of Hotel Gastis' 18th century basement, which nowadays houses our newly built spa establishment. This unique, tiled palace (approx. 75 000 tiles and clinker) is made up of an entire range of large and small rooms with the replica of the Lenin baths as the centre. The welcoming entrance with our harsh attendant Hashem at the bottom of the stairs is in connection with the changing rooms and toilet. The beautiful mirror is from the 1820's and the Jugend chandelier from the 1910's. Hence a mixture of styles! After yet another few steps down, we find two rooms for relaxation of different character. One of the rooms allows the possibility to watch television, while the other requires silence. Only tranquil music and the crackling fire is heard. Naturally, also this part of the book hotel Gastis offers a generous selection of magazines and books. From here, you also have access to the treatment area with massages and treatments in a relaxing atmosphere. The waiting room's old double washbasin from Rorstrand makes us particularly happy. Down to the bathing area itself you will find the stunning backstairs with the lamp from the film Gorky Park in the centre. The Lenin Baths with a pool, cold bath, steam bath and foot bath is a replica of the baths that originally were built in the basement of the girls' boarding school Smolny in St. Petersburg 1806-08. This is where the provisional revolutionary government moved when they came into power through the October Revolution in 1917. Until March 1918, when the government moved to Moscow and the Kremlin, Lenin was an often seen guest of these baths. His seat was always the same, in the back left corner of what is a bubble bath with us, but was a Russian hot bath there. In the niche behind the pool, a bust of the creator of the bath, the Italian architect Quarenghi, originally was enthroned. This was only replaced in the 1950's for a bust of Lenin in connection with a renovation of the baths, when it also officially gained the name The Lenin Baths. As such, it lived on until the beginning of the 1990's. It was primarily frequented by party officials and workers and civil servants of great merit who then used Smolny as a centre for recreation. Today, the baths are closed and the house is used by the municipal administration of St Petersburg. During a trip to Leningrad in 1983, this bath's creator was still able to use the Lenin Baths, however, without the permission to sit in Lenin's seat in the back left corner of the pool. In this replica of the Lenin Baths, you are, however, allowed to sit anywhere you like.